 | London missionary society - 1857 - 892 pages
...and his wickri gods, yon ought to be able to say, not merely wijj your lips, but from your heart — I thank the goodness and the grace "Which on my birth...Christian days, A happy English child. I was not born ag thousands are, &c. Young friends ! The idols are to be utterly stroyed, and Jesus wants you to assist... | |
 | Jesus Christ, Mother - 1857 - 242 pages
...God. Dear children ! think what a pleasant vineyard you have been planted in ! You may well say, — " I thank the goodness and the grace Which on my birth...made me in these Christian days A happy English child ! " But, oh ! do not put off seeking after God. Seek Him while you are young. Give Him your heart (Prov.... | |
 | Sunday School Society (Boston, Mass.) - Sunday school - 1857 - 294 pages
...with parting breath, As comes to me or shade or sun, Father, thy will, not mine, be done ! 95. CM 1 I THANK the goodness and the grace Which on my birth...have smiled, And made me, in these Christian days, A free and happy child. 2 I was not born, as millions are, 3 My God ! I thank thee, who hast planned... | |
 | Sunday School Society (Boston, Mass.) - Sunday school - 1857 - 284 pages
...with parting breath, As comes to me or shade or sun, Father, thy will, not mine, be done ! 33. CM 1 I THANK the goodness and the grace Which on my birth...have smiled, And made me, in these Christian days, A free and happy child. 2 I was not born, as millions are, 3 My God ! I thank thee, who hast planned... | |
 | 1857 - 770 pages
...of the second writer far rather than those of the first. " I thank the goodness and the grace That on my birth have smiled, And made me in these Christian days A happy English child. " I was not bom a little slave, To labour in the sun, And wish I was but in my grave, And all my labour done. "... | |
 | Children's poetry - 1857 - 300 pages
...I '11 always try to think of this — I 'm not too young for GOD to see. A CHILD'S HYMN OF PEAISE. I THANK the goodness and the grace, Which on my birth have smiled, And made me in these latter days, A happy Christian child. I was not born as thousands are, "Where GOD was never known ;... | |
 | W. H. R., William Harris Rule - Hymns - 1857 - 174 pages
...! let us sing, Hallelujah ! Amen. THANESOIVINO. 55. c. M. 1 T THANK the goodness and the grace, -1- Which on my birth have smiled, And made me, in these Christian days, A happy English child. 2 I was not born, as thousands are, Where God was never known ; And taught to pray a useless prayer... | |
 | Harriet Russell (fict.name.) - Christian life - 1858 - 134 pages
...enjoyed in our favoured country, Miss Walton called upon the youngest among us to repeat the verse — "I thank the goodness and the grace Which on my birth...me, in these Christian days, A happy English child." She then bade us try to picture to ourselvc? the poor little captive on the first night of hoi arrival... | |
 | A mother - 1858 - 232 pages
...God. Dear children ! think what a pleasant vineyard you have been planted in ! You may well say — " I thank the goodness and the grace Which on my birth...have smiled, And made me in these Christian days A nappy English child. But, oh ! do not put off seeking after God. Seek Him while you are young. Give... | |
 | Timothy East - Christian life - 1858 - 652 pages
...with a modest blush, and immediately repeated the following verses, -with ease and propriety : — " I thank the goodness and the grace, Which on my birth have smil'd, And made me, in these Christian days, A happy English child. "I was uot born, as thousands... | |
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I thank the good-ness and the grace Which on my birth have smiled, And made me, in these Chris-tian days, A hap-py Eng-lish child. 
